Read article 'CERN’s proton synchrotron turns 60'
Read article 'CERN’s proton synchrotron turns 60'
CERN's Graeme Stewart tours six decades of computing milestones in high-energy physics and describes the immense challenges ahead in taming data from future experiments.
The world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, will bring mysteries such as dark energy into focus.
Accelerator physicists in the US have proposed an alternative approach to the design of the proposed Future Circular electron-positron Collider using energy-recovery linacs.
Read about 'In focus: detector technology'
A retrospective of 60 years’ coverage of detector technology in CERN Courier
Read article 'Brookhaven to host Electron-Ion Collider'
If approved, the new machine will reuse infrastructure from the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider.
Read article 'Kirkby bags aerosol award'
Kirkby originated the CLOUD experiment at CERN.
Read article 'Taking the temperature of collider calorimetry'
Michele Livan and Richard Wigmans have written an up-to-date introduction to both the fundamental physics and the technical parameters.
Read article 'Superconductivity heats up in Dresden'
A better understanding of the role of magnetic flux trapping and impurities for RF losses has pushed state-of-the-art niobium to near its theoretical limit.
Read article 'Cooling experts head to Siberia'
Beam-cooling results from the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment were shown at COOL'19.
Read article 'CERN and ESA join forces in harsh environments'
CERN has signed a collaboration agreement with the European Space Agency to address the challenges of harsh radiation environments.
Read article 'Study comes full EuroCirCol'
The meeting marked the final event of the Horizon 2020 project to produce a conceptual design study for a 100 TeV circular hadron collider.
Read article 'Tunnelling for physics'
John Osborne, Alexandra Tudora and Ben Swatton survey the geological, environmental and technical constraints of a post-LHC collider.
Read article 'Dipole marks path to future collider'
Researchers in the US have demonstrated an advanced accelerator dipole magnet with a field of 14.1 T.
Read article 'Cloud services take off in the US and Europe'
Fermilab has announced the launch of HEPCloud, a step towards a new computing paradigm to deal with the vast quantities of data pouring in from existing and future facilities.
Read article 'Austrian synchrotron debuts carbon-ion cancer treatment'
MedAustron becomes one of six centres worldwide to treat tumours with carbon ions.
Read article 'Tricky component? Use 3D printing…'
Embedded radio-frequency (RF) cavities such as those featured in spiral-shaped cooling channels are one example.
Read about 'In focus: vacuum technology'
A retrospective of 60 years’ coverage of vacuum technology in CERN Courier
